The photo is a 1974 photo of Leslie Feinberg, from the FBI file on hir. I’ve written a piece on my interpretation of Transgender Warriors and Trans Liberation, but I don’t think it’s quite polished enough, so I’ll post it later. Instead, I’ll go over hir FBI file: https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/dc-metro/rg-065/6282555/Batch0010/6282555_100-HQ-480756.PDF.
The FBI thought Feinberg could be violating the Communist Control Act, advocating the overthrow of the government, and engaging in rebellion. Needless to say, a hero to all of us. Feinberg was a member of the Workers World Party (the party still exists, but more notably PSL split from it), which apparently wasn’t openly advocating for the overthrow of the U.S, they just think it’s inevitable.
My favorite line? “captioned subject is believed to be a white female, who became male through some kind of sex change operation, and is possibly homosexual”. Some interesting language choice, and it’s an interesting snapshot into the evolution of Leslie’s identity.
The FBI found Leslie’s place of birth and birthdate from public school records. It’s a bit of an interesting look into all of the many places the FBI can get their information, along with how information like that was so much more patchwork before the digital age.
“Interview of subject is not being recommended because of the questionable nature of his sexuality”. Hmm, interesting.
It’s interesting how their investigation spanned multiple cities, from Kansas City to NYC to Bufffalo to Boston. It probably involved quite a few officers, though I’m sure it wasn’t the main focus for all of them.
There’s some interesting mention about changes in Leslie’s gender identity. Born a girl, for a time wearing a beard and mustache, then going back to “she”. I’m sure we all know, Feinberg’s gender didn’t stop evolving there.
“Subject reportedly contributes all extra money to WWP”, Leslie definitely was dedicated to the cause. Leslie doesn’t attend NYC WWP meetings, but the FBI doesn’t mention why.
The FBI isn’t immune to typoes, Leslie did some “criminal terspass” that garnered some attention.They wasted some time checking if Leslie was in Boston, but verified where Leslie in NYC lived by pretending to be a part of the Voter Registration Commission.
There’s a whole 43 pages of documents, all just from 1974-75. There’s plenty of interesting tidbits in there, so maybe check it out.
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Kinda curious who has the most legitimate different passports (I’d count the 3 different types of US passports, for example, as different). There’s a couple places that you can practically buy a passport from my understanding (St Lucia, Portugal I think?). And a couple places that are happy to give out passports to decedents of citizens (Italy, Ireland?).
Would be nice to get a non-US passport just in case…
Yaa some countries in the Caribbean offer citizenship by investment, IIRC these include Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, Grenada, and Antigua and Barbuda. There’s also countries like Vanuatu, Jordan, Egypt and a few others that offer it. Portugal doesn’t offer direct citizenship, but a ‘golden visa’ by investment.
The countries with shortest residency requirements for citizenship would probably be Argentina and Peru which only require 2 years of residency, although Argentinian citizenship can’t be renounced. Technically, Israeli citizenship is also one of the easier ones to get due to the law of return recognizing converts to Judaism.
Ooh I know about books and cards, but what’s the third kind?
I meant 3 types of books. The normal citizen one (navy), the ambassador/diplomat one (black), and the Official one (red/maroon). Although apparently there’s also a grey book called a Service Passport.